Ext and DWR

[Joe Walker-3]

Hi,

I'm not going to weigh in on the bubbling flame war over Ext licenses just when things are starting to heat up, however one thing is clear - DWR can't distribute a WAR file that contains Ext at all, so I've deleted the small amount of integration work that I'd done and checked into SVN, and scrapped all plans to do further work for now.
It might make sense at some stage to create a totally separate project that is Ext+DWR, but it's not a priority right now.

If you feel the need to express an opinion the wisdom of the Ext license change, can I suggest that an Ext forum is the best place to do it. If however you'd like to flame me for:
- deleting the small amount of work
- doing it in the first place
- etc
Then here's the place!

Joe.

[Frank W. Zammetti]

Joe Walker wrote:
> It might make sense at some stage to create a totally separate project
> that is Ext+DWR, but it's not a priority right now.

I just read through all 49 (at the time I wrote this) pages on what
seems to be the main discussion thread over in the ExtJS forums and I
have to say, it's not even clear to me that you could do *that* with
this license change, unless you were OK with GPL'ing such a side project.

> If you feel the need to express an opinion the wisdom of the Ext license
> change, can I suggest that an Ext forum is the best place to do it. If
> however you'd like to flame me for:
> - deleting the small amount of work
> - doing it in the first place
> - etc
> Then here's the place!

Quite the contrary... you did the only reasonable and responsible thing
you could for DWR and it's community.  In fact, had you *not* made this
decision, I very likely would have not been able to use DWR at work any
longer, at least no version that contained ExtJS-related code, because
our counsel has already said no to anything GPL'd, or remotely related
to anything GPL'd.  You saved me from a potentially ugly situation :)

> Joe.

Frank

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[Joe Walker-3]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Frank W. Zammetti <fzlists@...> wrote:

Joe Walker wrote:

It might make sense at some stage to create a totally separate project that is Ext+DWR, but it's not a priority right now.

I just read through all 49 (at the time I wrote this) pages on what seems to be the main discussion thread over in the ExtJS forums and I have to say, it's not even clear to me that you could do *that* with this license change, unless you were OK with GPL'ing such a side project.

No quite.
If I were to think about Ext again, it would be because:
- I was happy that we could avoid making anyone think that DWR was GPL.
- It was clear that the community had survived.

Right now there is at least one fork (OpenExt) and I'm wondering just how long it will be before one side brings out a sharpened lawyer and threatens to: "take you all on - all of you!".

Joe.